Spot 1: LATEST ON ARTPAPERS.org
Jonathan Lasker: Visible Thoughts
Amanda Grae Platner: It’s Still Not Me, It’s You
In It’s Still Not Me, It’s You at Atlanta’s Echo Contemporary Art, Platner’s self-portraits and installations invite the viewer into her world. She coaxes empathy through a variety of strategies, some that are playful and interactive, others that involve showing pain.
I like it hot: Red, White & Royal Blue
Larping Adulthood: Freeville to Midlands
Spot 2: CHRISTIAN WALKER COLLECTION
Interview with Andres Serrano
AIDS Art Action
Interview with Lucinda Bunnen and
Virginia Warren Smith
Bump and Grind / Search and Destroy
Spot 3: QUEERING NARRATIVES
Kenneth Tam: The Silence We Hold Between Our Bodies
Re’al Christian speaks with Kenneth Tam about his recent work Silent Spikes; the entwined mythologies of American Cowboys with Chinese laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad; and the intimacy—and intensity—of male coming-of-age rituals.
Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar
Queer Intimacy: A Conversation with Diedrick Brackens
The implications of emerging fully black and fully queer into the art world, and of creating images wherein men touch.
BREYER P-ORRIDGE: We Are But One
Spot 4: FROM OUR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Of Oysters, Roaches, and New Pessimism in Hong Kong
It’s all very Videodrome. That body horror manifests in phone-breath-bed 3 (2023), a sculpture presented in its own small room. A silicone face emerges out of a Perspex panel, where, lower down, a silicone slab forms a womblike concave depression. The panel hovers over the form of a hospital bed with the support of gray plastic piping, whose mattress is a screen-skin painting with creased dermal folds framing silicone protrusions that swell from the flatness.
Robin Levy: A Space of Solidarity
All My …/All My— Designing Motherhood and the Labyrinth of Reproductive Health
The breathtaking range of topics in Designing Motherhood—choices of whether to conceive children or take a pregnancy to term, infant mortality, sterilization abuse, thalidomide, cesarean birth curtains, masculine birth, baby formula, the faja (a wrap for binding a postpartum abdomen), gender reveals, the Del Em Device, car seats, carers and carrying, the tie-waist skirt, the breast pump, and so on—reveals the immense, intricate knowledge necessary to understand reproductive health, and to advocate for conditions that promote wellbeing.
Michael Jones McKean: All That Lies Out of Sight
David Kim and Michael Jones McKean consider the immensity of the horizon and the poetics of a global body.
Spot 5: ON ALTERNATIVE ARTS PUBLICATIONS
Closing Shots From An Editor
Cultural Triage and The Demise of the Non Profit
Some Notes on Alternative Arts Publications: The Alternatives’ Dance for Money or Walking on a Tightrope
Spot 6: ATLANTA BORN AND BRED
Artists Books from The Atlanta School
Let It Flow—Hannah Palmer’s Reimagined Atlanta
Founding Stories:
Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta
“Founding Stories: Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta” was a decade-by-decade series of panel discussions exploring the founding stories of a selection of Atlanta’s DIY, grassroots, and artist-run spaces.
Three Case Studies in Ecological Protest
Spot 7: FROM THE GLOSSARY
autosexuality
Shehab Awad takes up the term autosexuality (n.) and offers a parable of self-discovery and acceptance.